Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything people are trying to hide from this era will have to come out," said Barbie attorney Jacques Verges, who plans to defend the 73-year-old former Lyon Gestapo chief by attacking his accusers...
Waldheim denounced the U.S. decision as "dismaying and incomprehensible" and told Austrians in a nationwide TV address, "I have a clear conscience." Many Austrians rallied to his defense, feeling that he had not been allowed to defend himself in what amounted to an "inquisition," as one Vienna newspaper put it. Some publications called for Waldheim's resignation, less out of shame than as a way of ending the diplomatic isolation that threatens to accompany his presidency. Said the Socialist Party daily Arbeiter-Zeitung: "By resigning, Kurt Waldheim could take this weight off all of Austria." Waldheim is not expected...
...trial opened last week, Goetz, 39, an electronics technician, faced 13 criminal charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third...
Economics Professor Sampie Terreblanche, one of the leaders of the campus revolt, says a deep split has taken place between the university and the country's ruling elite. "At Stellenbosch," he says, "we have reached the point that if a man is willing to defend the government, he has no standing in academic circles. This will have important effects. No government faced with these problems can afford to lose its academic contacts...
...local press carries little news of the Soviet Union's experimentation with freer markets and economic incentives. Members of Cuba's elite who are aware of the Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series...